Acela and the Associated Press

I was on this train yesterday. The same route. The same time. Just one day earlier.

In case you don't like following links: it crashed. It ran into a car which it dragged for several hundred yards before finally crushing the car beneath the wheels. The grandmother and 8-year-old grandson died, and the 4-year-old granddaughter was critically injured. None of the 116 passengers or 4 crew were hurt.

This article, aside from the obviously alarming things (two people died; I was on it so recently; they don't know how it happened; a 4-year-old may be without a guardian), is alarming for another reason. In every iteration I've seen (all related to the Associated Press), this line appears "None of the 116 passengers or 4 crew was hurt." None is an indefinite pronoun with both singular and plural personalities. You can remember these with the acronym SAMAN: Some, Any, Most, All, None. When these appear before a preposition, the verb following it is either plural or singular depending on the object of the preposition. The preposition in this case is "of"; the object of "of" is "the 116 passengers or 4 crew". Last time I counted 116 + 4 added up to plural and "was" referred to singular things.

Perhaps they were confused with the pronoun "each" which is always singular. As in: to each her own. Or each of these pronouns has its own personality.